Music Software & Bad Interface Design: Avid’s Sibelius by Tantacrul (not mine)

YouTube description: "In this video, I take a detailed look at the design of Avid’s Sibelius - a popular music notation application. Sibelius is the embodiment of what not to do as a user experience designer and this video covers a range of examples of inappropriate design patterns and bad user interface choices. Then I go insane.

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This really is one of the great examples of breaking all UI design principles and every UX design principle too. It’s like a design bull in a musical china shop."

  • MeanEYE@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    As someone who is in software development world, I can say not everything is to be blamed on developers. Many times companies will downright refuse to hire people to design user interfaces properly or invest time into tidying up existing interfaces. Managers often only look at graphs and ignore the users. User’s don’t matter, their money does.

    Now am not defending this company, but still…